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June 28, 2008

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A Former NCAA Division I Tennis Player Says His Foreign-Born Teammates Were “Always Ready To Take, Rarely To Give Back”; etc.

From: Kevin Carnell (e-mail him)

Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column: Another Thing American Kids Can’t Do—Play Tennis?

With Wimbledon now in progress, I have been thinking back to my days as a collegiate tennis player for UW-Green Bay, a small Division I university.  And I cannot think about college tennis without the sub-topic of foreign-born players. An Internet search led me to Guzzardi’s dead on correct column.

I graduated in 2000 and am the coordinator of an annual alumni match.  None of the foreign-born players that were on my team attend mainly because I have no way to find them. 

They don’t keep in touch. Most finish their tennis careers and vanish. The foreign-born players are always ready to take but rarely to give back.

Here is a website, somewhat dated, that tracks the universities that have the highest percentage of foreign-born tennis players on their rosters.

The information is astonishing. Note that at least fourteen Division I teams are made up of 100 percent foreign-born.

Because of its growing dependence of non-American players, I predict that tennis on the college level will continue to decline over the years to come.

Carnell is an auto claims analyst who coaches high school varsity tennis and plays doubles on a 5.0 league.

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A Las Vegas Reader Says MADD Is “Useless” In The Fight To Curb Illegal Aliens Drunken Driving

From: Ken Record (e-mail him)

Re: Brenda Walker’s Column: Mothers Against Drunk Driving: Successful Reformers—Or Hypocrites from Hell 

Thanks for the revealing piece about MADD.  The thought, however, of any kind of organization surviving in Las Vegas with a prohibitionist attitude—even toward driving deaths caused by unlicensed illegal aliens—is not realistic.

When MADD turned in that direction, it folded and was replaced by MADUI (Mothers Against D. U. I.), which is equally worthless when speaking out against death and injury caused by intoxicated, unlicensed and uninsured illegal aliens, usually from Mexico.

Take, for example, the case of Nicolas Serrano-Villagrana, a Mexican national illegally in the United States.

His first brush with the law came when he was stopped and apprehended by the Nevada State Highway Patrol on suspicion of DUI.  He was released because, according to authorities, the sobriety test was "improperly administrated." 

Of course, he had no driver's license or proof of insurance and only his Matricula Consular as identification.

Slightly more than three months later, the North Las Vegas Police Department arrested Serrano-Villagrana again and a municipal judge sent him to DUI school at taxpayer expense. 

The judge explained that the police had given her no paperwork to indicate Serrano-Villagrana was an illegal.

That's the way things are in illegal alien-infested North Las Vegas

Serrrano-Villagrana surfaced a third time driving on Eastern Avenue and drinking beer in the cab of his pickup with two buddies.  He lost control of the truck, jumped the curb and plowed into a bus shelter.

He killed a 4-year-old-boy and crippled the mother for life. His buddies split and Serrano-Villagrana pulled into the rear of an adjacent strip mall.  He was tossing beer cans in the dumpster when angry people jumped him and held him for the police.

Disgusted, I called Ms. Sandy Heverly, [email her] former executive director of the Las Vegas MADD who currently holds the same position at Stop DUI, to ask if she were going to make a statement about Serrano-Villagrana and his multiple DUI priors. 

Her reply to me: "I'll tell you what I told the reporter from the Las Vegas Review-Journal; our objective is to stop DUI and we do not want to be involved in politics."

Nevada's largest newspaper editorialized at some length on this tragedy caused by Serrano-Villagrana who got off light with a sentence of 15 years to life. [System Failure Editorial, Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 21, 2004]

Be it MADD, Stop DUI or whatever, these folks have their blinders on and refuse to use their considerable leverage in our fight for immigration sanity.

Record’s previous letters about the Anti-Defamation League and Ted Kennedy’s lack of national influence are here and here.

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A Washington D.C. Reader Says MADD Doesn’t Understand Motorcycle Safety Issues Either

From: Howard Segermark (e-mail him)

Walker’s interesting article on MADD and the group’s refusal to acknowledge the link between illegal immigration and automobile fatalities caused by intoxicated aliens reminds me that MADD also lobbies in favor of compulsory motorcycle helmets. 

While motorcycle accidents and alcohol consumption have a strong correlation, compulsory helmets do nothing to solve the problem.  As industry officials readily admit, when Junior races his 1200 cc crotch-rocket into a tree at 90 mph, with a blood alcohol level high enough to ignite, his helmet isn’t going to do anything for him. 

The double tragedy with compulsory helmet laws is that they take attention away from the real causes of ‘cycle accidents—mainly driver irresponsibility—in hopes of making accidents safer. 

And, by suggesting to motorcyclists that they are safer with a helmet on, MADD may be encouraging some riders to take greater risks while wearing a helmet—risks like excess speed and excessive alcohol consumption. 

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A Reader “Living In Paradise” Says Ending Fiancée Visas Won’t Stop Americans Importing Foreign-Born Wives

From: Jim Bolger (e-mail him)

Re: Joe Guzzardi’s Column: Meet Rose—A Prospective Fiancée Visa Bride Currently Working In A Filipino Sex Club

Eliminating the K-1 visa will not end the practice of American men marrying foreign brides. Grooms will simply marry their fiancées in their home countries, secure a K-3 spousal visa and bring them to America.

If the federal government banned spousal visas, that might slow down the mail order bride business. But as a practical matter, it would only delay the inevitable arrival into the U.S. of foreign-born brides.

Personally, to be with my wife I would have smuggled her through Mexico if I had to. 

Our story has a happy ending for VDARE.COM readers who support closed borders and encourage population stabilization. We retired to her Southeast Asian country and took our children with us.

Now we’re living in paradise and could not be happier.

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